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This process eats into a pool of collateral already shrinking with the withering market values of many eurozone sovereigns' bonds.

From past experience I knew that taking on a distance learning qualification eats into the little spare time that I had.

Vast wealth, to the person unaccustomed to it, is a bane; it EATS into the flesh and bone of his morals.

All this eats into the potential of the economy to grow.

However, as wages and bonuses keep falling at record rates this year the shopping spree eats into Japanese consumers' savings.

One result of this approach, however, is that when banks remove assets from their balance sheets, it eats into capital.

This eats into their already small profits and discourages vendors from soliciting the card's use for small purchases .

This takes the load off the public health system but also eats into the profits of the pharmaceutical and other medical companies.

A climate that eats into your soul, that leaves you bare as the Labrador coast.

Inflation eats into bondholders' returns by eroding the value of their returns over time.

And they're paying relatively high interest rates, which further eats into their relatively lower income, reducing their wealth potential.

Since some 80 per cent of China's electricity is generated by coal-fired power plants, that immediately eats into margins.

Paying for food eats into 50% of the cost of producing a pig, according to BPEX.

The air pollution-related illness already eats into 2-3 percent of gross domestic product.

Workers eat into turkey and turkey time eats into working days relative to the third quarter.

That eats into their profit margins.

For Frank, trapping surplus cash in China eats into his returns and constrains his ability to raise debt.